ISBN: 9780520275782 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 336 Rok wydania: 2013
Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story, mammal hunters entered the continent some 12,000 years ago via a land bridge that spanned the Bering Sea....
ISBN: 9780520219311 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 520 Rok wydania: 1999
For centuries Daoism (Taoism) has played a central role in the development of Chinese thought and civilization, yet to this day only a few of its sacred texts have been translated into English. Now...
ISBN: 9780520279414 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 248 Rok wydania: 2017
Agn s Varda is a prolific film director, photographer, and artist whose cinematic career spans more than six decades. Today she is best known as the innovative "mother" of the French New...
ISBN: 9780520261259 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 296 Rok wydania: 2009
Rudolf Arnheim has been known, since the publication of his groundbreaking "Art and Visual Perception" in 1974, as an authority on the psychological interpretation of the visual arts. Two...
ISBN: 9780520244146 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 339 Rok wydania: 2005
In this closely integrated collection of essays on colonialism in world history, Frederick Cooper raises crucial questions about concepts relevant to a wide range of issues in the social sciences...
ISBN: 9780520279865 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 376 Rok wydania: 2014
From the very beginning of cinema, there have been amateur filmmakers at work. It wasn't until Kodak introduced 16mm film in 1923, however, that amateur moviemaking became a widespread reality,...
ISBN: 9780520075467 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 432 Rok wydania: 1991
In this fascinating biography, A. Lloyd Moote provides the first authoritative account of one of the most enigmatic figures of seventeenth-century Europe. Contrary of popular portrayals of the...
ISBN: 9780520261266 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 250 Rok wydania: 2009
Rudolf Arnheim has been known, since the publication of his groundbreaking "Art and Visual Perception" in 1974, as an authority on the psychological interpretation of the visual arts. Two...
ISBN: 9780520268180 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 536 Rok wydania: 2010
Offering insight and equal consideration into the societies of the "civilized" and "uncivilized" world, "Europe and the People Without History" deftly explores the...
ISBN: 9780520292468 Oprawa: miękka Autor: Mairs, Rachel Ilość stron: 256 Rok wydania: 2016
In The Aftermath Of Alexander The Great's Conquests In The Late Fourth Century BC, Greek Garrisons And Settlements Were Established Across Central Asia, Through Bactria And Into India. Looking...
ISBN: 9780520266018 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 380 Rok wydania: 2010
This illustrated volume contains a collection of essays on the topic of art psychology.
ISBN: 9780520252196 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 240 Rok wydania: 2008
For centuries, the Aghori have been known as the most radical ascetics in India: living naked on the cremation grounds, meditating on corpses, engaging in cannibalism and coprophagy, and consuming...
ISBN: 9780520253902 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 360 Rok wydania: 2007
The history of footbinding is full of contradictions and unexpected turns. The practice originated in the dance culture of China's medieval court and spread to gentry families, brothels,...
ISBN: 9780520282353 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 240 Rok wydania: 2014
A rich, salty, and steaming bowl of ramen noodle soup climbed its way onto the international culinary scene and, from Tokyo to New York, is now a symbol of the cultural prowess of Japanese cuisine....
ISBN: 9780520063396 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 281 Rok wydania: 1992
Goddess worship has long been a significant aspect of Hinduism. In this book David Kinsley, author of The Sword and the Flute--Kali & Krsna: Dark Visions of the Terrible and the Sublime in...
ISBN: 9780520283701 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 356 Rok wydania: 2015
The Final Pagan Generation recounts the fascinating story of the lives and fortunes of the last Romans born before the Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity. Edward J. Watts traces their...
ISBN: 9780520271265 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 656 Rok wydania: 2010
Widely praised as the definitive history of Beirut, this is the story of a city that has stood at the crossroads of Mediterranean civilization for more than four thousand years. The last major work...
ISBN: 9780520248373 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 238 Rok wydania: 2006
In the fall of 1957 the University of California Press expanded Arnheim's 1933 book "Film" żeby four essays and brought that landmark work back into print as "Film as Art". Now...
ISBN: 9780520286245 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 410 Rok wydania: 2015
Provides a look at religious violence and the attitudes that drove it in the Christian Roman Empire of the fourth and fifth centuries. The author asks what religious conflict meant to those...
ISBN: 9780520251236 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 346 Rok wydania: 2007
Of the dozens of books written about Orson Welles, most focus on the central enigma of Welles' career: why did someone so extravagantly talented neglect to finish so many projects? Film critic...